Sanctuary-lamp



E. J. KNAPP.

SANCTUARY LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED APR.28, 1919.

Patented Apr. 13, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT o IoE.

KNAPP, 0F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO E. J. KNAIPP CANDLE AND WAX00., INC., OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SANCTUARY-LAMP.

'Application filed April 28, 1919. Serial No. 293,147.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. KNAPP, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York,have invented a certain new and useful Sanctuary-Lamp, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to candle lamps and has for its object certainimprovements in candle or sanctuary lamps of the type described in myPatent No. 1,255,614, Feb. 5, 1918, by which the candle and meltedgrease in the cupped base is caused to be almost entirely consumed andby which-outlets and a receptacle is provided to receive any greaserunning over the cupped base or down the candle which would otherwiseobstruct the seating of the cap of the candle on the base and preventproper burning of the candle.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations andconstructions hereinafter set forth and claimed. e In describing thisinvention,reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which likecharacters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of this lamp, the candle beingshown in elevation.

Figs. 2' and 3 are, respectively, a plan and inverted plan of the cuppedbase.

Fig. 1. is a vertical sectional view through the cap and base, showingthe cap seated on the base after the candle is nearly consumed.

1 designates the main frame or holder of the lamp which is here shown asa tubu-. lar glass shell open at its top and having a depending bottom 2which contracts inwardly and downwardly and terminates in an ornamentalpiece as a ball The bottom confines a cavity for the receptacle to behereinafter described.

The frame or holder is here-shown as adapted for a hanging lamp and isprovided with suitable means as chains 4 by means of which it may becarried or suspended.

The frame or holder may be of any other suitable form, size andconstruction.

5 is the cupped base in which the candle 6 is mounted and 7 is areceptacle in which the base 5 is seated, said receptacle including anannular side wall and an inwardly and downwardly extending bottom 8extending into the cavity of the bottom 2 of the frame or holder 1. 4

The bottom of the receptacle adjoining the annular wall is annular andflat and forms a' seat or ledge 9 for the base- 2. Said base is providedwith a ring 10 which encircles the body of said base, and this ring isprovided with an outwardly ex-.

tending base flange 11 formed with corru gations 12 which are here shownas circular. The ring also has an upright conical peripheral surface 13above the flange 11 with which the inner face of the cap engages. Thering 10 is preferably formed of hard rubber while the cap 15 is formedof lass.

he annular wall of the receptacle 7 is spaced apart from the base 5 andthe base 'is provided with spacing lugs 14 on its lower side which reston the ledge 9 and provide passages from the upper part of thereceptacle 7 into the bottom 8 thereof for any melted wax or grease thatmay overflow'the base 5 and otherwise accumulate on the flange 11 orring 10 or in the upper part of the receptacle, and prevent the cap 15from seating on the ring 10. This cap 15 is substantially the same asinmy patent referred to. e

In the lamp of my patent, the melted wax or grease sometimes overflowedthe cupped base and accumulated on the ring so that the.

cap could not seat substantially evenly but by this construction and bythe corrugations 11, most of the wax runs off and any remaining on thering accumulates in the corrugation or is flattened in the corrugationsas the cap seats.

' In order that the butt of the candle or the melted wax or grease maybe almost entirely consumed the wick 16 of the candle is increased inthickness at 17 at its lower end melted grease or wax as 18 in thecupped base ins'uflicient quantity to feed the flame, or fast enough toprevent the flame from being smothered in-the melted grease or wax.

As here shown the wick is held in the prongs 19 of a disk 20 at thelower end of the candle as in m patent referred to, and the wick isdouble back to increase the size of the wick in the butt of the candle.The bottom of the holder is also provided with suitable air holes 21,

. so as to provide enough wick to draw the base, the candle having thelower portion of its wick of greaterthicknessthanthe re- 1 mainder ofthe wick which thickened portion of :the wick is located in that part ofthe candle at the bottom of the cup' shaped base, substantially as andfor the purpose described.

the base and a cap on the candle having the 2. A candle lamp including acuppedbase having an outwardly extending annular flange formed withcorrugated upperfaces, a candle mounted in the base, and a cap on thecandle having its lower end face movable into positionto rest 'on saidcorrugated face as the candle shortens, substantially as and for thepurpose specified. T 3. A candle lamp including acupped base having anoutwardly extending annular flange formed with a corrugated upper face,and an upwardly tapering comcal face above said corrugated face, acandle mounted -m inner face of its lower end portion arra ed to engagethe conical face and its lower e ge tially face engage said corrugatedface, substanas and for the purpose set forth.

'4. A candle lamp including a cupped base having an outwardly extendingannular flange formed with a corrugated upper face and also having aconical face above the flange, a receptacle in which the base is mountedhaving means for supporting the base above and spaced apart from thebottom of the receptacle to form a receivin space below the base andpassages from the upper part of the receptacle to the receiving space, acandle supported in the base and a cap for the candle having its lowerend I movable into engagement with the corrugated face as the candleshortens, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. A'candle lamp including a cupped base a receptacle below the base,the receptacle including an annular wall and inwardly and downwardlycontracting portions, the base beingsupported on the portion of thebottom adjoining the annular wall and having passages between its bottomand said portion of the bottom of the receptacle and a candle supportedin the base, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof, l have hereunto signed my name, at Syracuse, inthe county of Onondaga and State of New York, this 21st day 0 A ia 1919.

' DWARD J. KNAPP,

